If you have a support agreement that was current at the time of the upgrade, you would get major upgrades for free. Usually a major-version is a paid upgrade.

Just to clarify, this is not a patch or a bugfix - it is a change in design because something that had been acceptable behavior previously is now unwanted simply because of the selling of Continuous Integration that we are currently engaged in.

If you want to keep the current version, there is still the option of wrapping the compare task into a batch file as I'd mentioned previously.

I think this behaviour is improved in our latest Frequent Updates release (11.1.7.47) - Compare should now refresh views less often; it will no longer refresh views unrelated to the deployment and will refresh no views if the 'Include Dependencies' option is disabled